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List of all electric tramcars of the Sheffield Corporation Tramways

Sheffield Tramway

Sheffield Tramway was an extensive tramway network serving the English city of Sheffield and its suburbs.The first tramway line, horse-drawn, opened in 1873 between Lady's Bridge and Attercliffe, subsequently extended to Brightside and Tinsley...

(standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

).

Opened 5 September 1899, closed 8 October 1960.

Cars built between 1899 and 1926

Car numbers	Type (as built)	Year built	Builder	Seats	Truck	Motors	Controllers
1-25	Open top	1899	Milnes	22/29	Peckham Cantilever	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH B13
26-38	Open top	1900	Milnes	22/29	Peckham cantilever	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH B13
39-50	Single deck	1899	Milnes	28	Peckham cantilever	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH B6
51-52	Single deck	1899	Milnes	28	Peckham cantilever	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH B13
53-58	Single deck	1900	ER&TCW	28	Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH B13
59-73	Open top	1900	ER&TCW	22/29	Peckham cantilever	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH13
74-88	Open top	1900	ER&TCW	22/29	Brill 21E	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH13
88-103	Single deck	1900	Brush	28	Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
104-123	Open top	1900-01	Brush	22/29	Brill 21E	BTH GE52 2x25hp	BTH13
124-129	Single deck	1901	SCT	28	Brill 23E	GTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH B13
130	Water car	1901	SCT		Brill 21E	GTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH B13
131-155	Open top	1901	Milnes	22/29	Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
156-165	single deck	1902	Cravens	28	Brill 21E	BTH GE52 2x35hp	BTH13
166	Works car	1874 (1902)	Starbuck		Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
167-186	Open top	1902	Cravens	22/29	Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
187-192	Single deck	1903	Milnes	28	Milnes	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
193-198	Open top	1903	SCT	22/29	Milnes	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
199	Stores car	1877 (1903)	unknown		Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH
200-211	Single deck	1903	SCT	28	Brill 21E	BTH GE52 2x35hp	BTH13
212	Water car	1904	SCT		Milnes	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
213-218	Open top	1904	SCT	22/29	Milnes	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH
219-243	Open top	1904	Brush	22/29	Brush A	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH
244-245	Open top	1897 (1904)	Milnes	22/29	Brush A	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH
246-257	Short top cover	1905	SCT	22/30	Mills/Brush AA	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
258-272	Balcony	1907	UEC	22/36	M&G Radial	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH13
273-280	Snow-ploughs	1906	Milnes		Peckham Cantilever	BTH GE58 2x25hp	BTH13
281-295	Balcony	1912	SCT	22-36	Peckham	BTH RGE20 2x40hp	BTH18
296-345	Balcony	1913	Brush	22/36	Peckham P22	BTH RGE20 2x40hp	BTH18
346-355	Balcony	1913	SCT	22/36	Peckham P22	BTH RGE20 2x40hp	BTH18
367-369	Enclosed	1918-21	SCT	28/48	Peckham P22	BTH RGE203 2x40hp	BTH
376-400	Enclosed	1921-22	Brush	28/48	Peckham P22	BTH RGE203 2x40hp	BTH
401-450	Enclosed	1919-20	SCT	28/48	Peckham P22	BTH RGE203 2x40hp	BTH
451-500	Enclosed	1926-27	Cravens	28/40	Peckham P22	MV 102D 2x50hp	BTH OK1B

Cars built between 1927 and 1952

Car numbers	Type (as built)	Year built	Builder	Seats	Truck	Motors	Controllers
1	Enclosed	1927	Cravens	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102 2x50hp	BTH B510
2-35	Enclosed	1928-30	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102 2x50hp	BTH B510
36-60	Enclosed	1924-25	Brush	Brush	Peckham P22	BTH 503 2x40hp	BTH B510
61-130	Enclosed	1930-33	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102DR 2x50hp	BTH B510
131-155	Enclosed	1929-30	Hill	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102 2x50hp	BTH B510
156-230	Enclosed	1933-35	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102DR 2x50hp	BTH B510
231-242	Enclosed	1936	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102DR 2x50hp	BTH B510
243-248	Enclosed	1936	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	WT 286 or MV 116DR 2x50hp	BTH B510
249-303	Enclosed	1936-39	SCT	24/37	Peckham P22	MV 102DR 2x50hp	BTH B510
336-350	Enclosed	1907	UEC	22/36	Peckham P22	various 2x40hp	BTH B510
352-365	Snow-ploughs	various	various		Brill 21E	GE 58 2x35hp	various
311-324	Enclosed	1901 (1941)	Hurst Nelson	24/36	Brill 21E	BTH GE58 2x35hp	BTH B3
325-334	Enclosed	1920-21 (1943)	EE	19/40	Brill 21E	EE DK 31A 2x50hp	DK DB1
501	Jubilee	1946	SCT	26/36	M&T588	MV 102DR3 2x65hp	BTH B510
502-536	Jubilee	1950-52	Roberts	26/36	M&T588	MV 102DR3 2x65hp	BTH B510

Abbreviations of manufacturers

BEC: British Electric Car Company, Manchester.
Brill: J. G. Brill and Company, Philadelphia,
BTH: British Thomson-Houston, Rugby.
Brush: Brush Electrical Engineering
Brush Traction
This article is about a British rail-locomotive maker. For the Detroit auto-maker, see Brush Motor Car CompanyBrush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, part of the FKI group , based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, England situated alongside the Midland Main Line.-...

, Loughborough.
Cravens: Cravens Railway Carriage & Wagon company
Cravens
Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited was a railway rolling stock builder in the Darnall district of Sheffield, England. Cravens built many diagrams of coaching stock for the Pre-grouping Railway companies of Great Britain, the Grouped companies and for British Railways itself. They...

, Darnall
Darnall
Darnall ward—which includes the districts of Attercliffe, Carbrook, Darnall, Tinsley, and parts of Handsworth—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is located in the eastern part of the city and covers an area of 17.4 km2. The...

, Sheffield.
DK: Dick, Kerr & company, Preston.
EE: English Electric
English Electric
English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...

, Preston.
ER&TCW: Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works, Preston.
GEC: General Electric company
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

, Birmingham.
Peckham: Peckham Truck & Engineering company.
Roberts: Charles Roberts & company, Horbury nr. Wakefield.
SCT: Sheffield city Tramways, Queens Road Works.

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